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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:18:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 15 Jan 2002 17:47:13 -0000 Issue 300
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> Thanks for the patch.  I applied it to my local
> sandbox but I
> was somewhat surprised about the behaviour since
> 
>   cygpath -D -A
> 
> has another result as
> 
>   cygpath -A -D
> 
> which is not what a user expects.  The options
> should be scanned
> and after the scanning they should be evaluated
> (right after the
> switch statement).  Would you mind to change your
> patch accordingly?
> 
> Corinna
> 
Yeah, I figured that since the (unpatched) cygpath's
current behaviour requires switches to precede other
options that this was expected:

$ cygpath -Ww
/c/WINNT

$ cygpath -wW 
C:\WINNT

Should I try and change that, too?


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